Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Revolution is not a Dinner Party
Gerry Lopez. Photo: Art Brewer
Nat Young. Photo: John Witzig
Jackie Baxter. Photo: Alan Rich
Bruce Valluzzi. Photo: Doug Fiske
Windansea. Photo: Jeff Divine
Surfing did its best to abdicate from the world of sport. Other athletes—everyone from Joe Namath to Joe Frazier—were getting high, growing their hair, and listening to the Beatles' White Album. But surfers practically melted into the counterculture.
It may seem a bit grandiose that anything having to do with surfing should be called a “revolution,” but the late-'60s shortboard revolution was just that—in miniature, at least. Old ways and ideas were thrown over in a furious rush. Young leaders ground their bare feet into the backs of their predecessors as they charged forward. Like most revolutions, this one had an exciting, necessary, even ri...
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